White lies and kind silence, sentence 24
Kind silence is fine for small things like gifts, but not for anything that could hurt someone.
Who acts: Kind silence, that · What happens: be, not hurt · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kind silence, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silence | amod |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fine | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 gifts | case |
| 9 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 things | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 anything | case |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 hurt | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hurt | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurt | aux |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 hurt | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kind silence | for small things like gifts; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | could | that | someone | for anything | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:24.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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